ACC grills wife of Mosharraf

The Anti-Corruption Commission has found involvement of BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain's wife in laundering money to an overseas bank account, ACC Deputy Director Ahsan Ali said yesterday.
After a two-hour grilling, Bilkis Akhter Hossain confessed to holding a joint bank account with her husband in Lloyds TSB Offshore Private Banking (Guernsey) Ltd in St Peter Port, UK, Ahsan told reporters at the ACC's headquarters in the capital.
On February 6, the ACC filed a case against Mosharraf in connection with laundering over Tk 9.53 crore to the UK bank.
The commission is now considering starting a legal case against Bilkis, said Ahsan, also the investigation officer of the case.
Bilkis, however, denied making any comment after the grilling, saying she had told whatever she had to say before the commission. Earlier, Mosharraf was quizzed in the case.
According to the case statement, the BNP leader amassed the amount between 2001 and 2006 by exerting

influence during his stint as minister and deposited that with a bank account in the UK.
An investigation by the ACC revealed that the amount was deposited in a joint bank account of Mosharraf and his wife with the UK bank.
Arrested on March 12 in the case, Mosharraf is now behind bars.